thank:
Rebecca Abrams, Jonathan Aves, Laura Barber, Hilary and Paul Bartlett, Rachel Beckles-Willson, Erica Benner, Martin Bryant,. Dmitry and Yaroslav Bykov, James Campbell, Peter Carson, Robert Chandler, Catherine Clarke, Richard Collins, Victoria Cooper, Gina Cowen, Mark Curtis, Yulia Dolgopolova, Jane Eagan, Nina Gerasimova-Persidskaya, Alia Golovacheva, Andrew Gordon, Barbara Graziosi, Alexandra Griffiths, Branka Grundy, Alex Harrington, Mariana Haseldine, Johannes Haubold, Alexander Hoare, Regula Hohl, Brook Horowitz, Robyn Karney, Vladimir Kataev, Laurence Kelly, Alevtina Kuzicheva, Andrew Lambert, Klaus Lauer, Nina Lobanov- Rostovsky, Andrew Louth, Stephen Lovell, Judith Luna, Alexei Pavlenko, Anthony Phillips, Cecily, Hannah, Marc, Naomi and Rachel Polonsky, Georgy Putnikov, Avril Pyman, Donald Rayfield, Irina Snitkova, Nicholas Stargardt, Elizabeth Stratford, Natasha Sutta, Marianna Taimanova, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Tanya Tsaregradskaya, Lucy and Tom Walker, Elizabeth Zeschin, the staff of the Taylorian Slavonic Library in Oxford, and Russian National Library in Moscow. Thanks also to Mikhail Zolotaryov for supplying many of the photographs from Moscow.
An award from the K. Blundell Trust towards travel costs incurred during research for this book is gratefully acknowledged.
Part of an earlier version of chapter 11 first appeared as a feature article in the programme book accompanying the Guthrie Theater's production of Three Sisters, Minneapolis, April 2003.
Part of an earlier version of chapter 12 first appeared as a 'Letter from Badenweiler', in the Times Literary Supplement, 27 December 2002.
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